On the Minnesota Test for Diffferential Diagnosis of Aphasia, a test used to measure language skills after a stroke or brain injury, one of the questions elicits a short language sample: Name 3 things a good citizen should do. The best response I ever received was, “Vote, pay taxes and delight your wife.” Gene M. [...]

There is  a stereotype of a therapist, psychologist, or maybe even a life coach that conjurs up the image of a long-winded, “I Feel Your Pain”, pseudo-empathic character.  Or perhaps it feels less “confrontational” to be oblique rather than blunt.  Well, there has been a time or two when I have been caught using psychology [...]

It is not merely a cliche’ that one must look for the rainbow after a rainstorm. Once upon a time, a perfect little smooth fox terrier puppy was born in California. Her spectacular face was half-black and half-white; even one eye had black eye lashes and the other had white ones. She was  lucky puppy [...]